{"id":88813,"date":"2019-07-11T10:00:35","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T14:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=88813"},"modified":"2019-07-11T08:19:29","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T12:19:29","slug":"pat-tillman-award-goes-to-a-marine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=88813","title":{"rendered":"Pat Tillman Award Goes to a Marine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-85328\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ega.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"227\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/off-duty\/2018\/07\/30\/from-marine-to-role-model\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marine Corps veteran Kirstie Ennis<\/a>\u00a0already has quite the impressive resume.<\/p>\n<div class=\" mco-body-item mco-body-type-text\">\n<p class=\"element element-paragraph\">The prior Marine sergeant has been attempting to climb and summit the tallest peaks on each continent. In 2015\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2018\/07\/30\/marine-vet-facing-amputation-completes-trek-across-britain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">she walked across Britain<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 with some help from Prince Harry. She has swam and won three gold medals in the Warrior Games. She\u2019s a snowboarding Paralympic hopeful. She was nonprofit Pin-Ups for Vets\u2019 first female amputee model ? and has started a successful nonprofit of her own.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\" mco-body-item mco-body-type-text\">\n<p class=\"element element-paragraph\">And, she did it all with one leg.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\" mco-body-item mco-body-type-text\">\n<p class=\"element element-paragraph\">Now, she will have the Pat Tillman Award for Service, given at Wednesday night\u2019s ESPY Awards, to add to her collection of accolades. &#8211; article<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/off-duty\/military-culture\/2019\/07\/10\/marine-corps-veteran-and-amputee-to-receive-pat-tillman-award-for-service-at-wednesdays-espy-awards\/\">https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/off-duty\/military-culture\/2019\/07\/10\/marine-corps-veteran-and-amputee-to-receive-pat-tillman-award-for-service-at-wednesdays-espy-awards\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There was an article about her hike in the UK, before her second amputation. When she met Prince Harry near the end of the hike, she told him that there was pain in the injured knee and she&#8217;d probably have a second amputation.<\/p>\n<p>Glad to see this award given to a deserving person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Marine Corps veteran Kirstie Ennis\u00a0already has quite the impressive resume. The prior Marine sergeant has &hellip; <a title=\"Pat Tillman Award Goes to a Marine\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=88813\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pat Tillman Award Goes to a Marine<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[126,331],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disposable-warriors","category-marines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88814,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88813\/revisions\/88814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}